CO vs. TX

lately i've been noticing how different texas is...so here's a comparison for you guys:

roadkill - roadkill in colorado is usually squirels, rabbits, skunks....in texas it's armadillos. i guess the common thread here is deer though :) same with animals you find all around, in colorado you always see bunnies and squirels, here you see armadillos. no joke, one was in my yard last night when i got home. i'll try to get a picture soon. and spiders. they're big enough you should count them as animals.

hoodies - a year round necessity in colorado (as well as fashion statement), where in texas i'm wearing mine for the first time, and that's only because the air conditioning is on too low...although they still are a fashion statement for the 3 days a year you can wear them.

rain - in colorado it pours for maybe 20 minutes once a month, in texas it rains and then doesn't really stop, and certainly doesn't dry out any time soon. today it felt like it should be raining but it wasn't, it was just really, really, really humid (and i'm used to the humidity now!).

language - apparently i talk fast...that's what i've been told. i think everyone in texas just talks slow. and doesn't annunciate!!!!! also, in colorado if you say "ya'll" people look at you funny. in texas if you say "you guys" people look at you funny and then ask where all the guys are.

roads and directions - in colorado the roads have names. in texas, roads have numbers, and no one knows them. when you ask for directions is usually something like "you take a right where this person lives, then go about 5 minutes, and then take a left next to the red barn, and then another 10 minutes down the road is where my mother's cousin lives, and then ...." well you get the idea.

seasons - in colorado i look forward to the summer. in texas everyone dreads the summer because that means you pretty much have to stay inside because else you will melt. BUT everyone looks forward to the other 9 months of the year because it's the perfect temperature (i have yet to see this...but i'm trusting)

smoking and vegetarians - in colorado you're pretty much not allowed to smoke anywhere and there are vegetarians everywhere. in texas, you're pretty much allowed to smoke anywhere and people can name only 1 person they know that's a vegetarian, and look at you funny if you don't order meat.

4WD - people in colorado have SUVs in case it snows (bear with me, this is a generalization). in texas everyone has SUVs because they are a status symbol. i'm pretty sure they've NEVER used 4WD... except for that one time they went off of FM 2145 (one of the roads by camp, still not sure exactly which one is 2145 and which is 2981) and got stuck in the ditch (FM means farm to market road and 2145 is the name of the road).

weather - in colorado you wait 5 minutes and the weather changes. i'm still waiting for the weather here to change and it's been a month.